Email-only contacts become merged/corrupted in address book

I have many contacts in address book. Most of them have some combination of phone number, first name, last name, notes, email address, etc. Some of my contacts have all fields blank except the email address field.
I have some groups in address book that are mostly email address-only contacts, for example a group full of listserv addresses.
Recently I have noticed that somehow these email-only contact groups are being corrupted so that extra addresses are slowly being added to each contact, seemingly from the next contact in the list. How bizarre.
So, for example if I have a contact card with no name, phone, etc., just the address "[email protected]", and the next card in the group is "[email protected]" somehow after awhile when i open the first contact, it suddenly has 2 email addresses listed, jsmith, and psmith! How does this happen?
The corruption seems to coincide with syncing with the iPhone. Perhaps it has something to do with how syncservices handles email-only addresses when it syncs back and forth with the iphone?
Anybody else having this problem? I believe it is new to Leopard but maybe not.

Ted L. Nancy wrote:
If a contact card within a group has multiple emails, how can I get Mail to automatically send an email to both email addresses when sending to that group?
the only way to do that is to duplicate the address card for this contact and add it to a group twice. then control-click on the group in AB and select "edit distribution list". it will let you select which address to use for each individual contact in the group.
(e.g. Bob Jones has two emails: [email protected] and [email protected] I have both emails in his contact card in Address Book. Bob's card is in my group entitled "Friends." When composing a message in Mail.app, I type "Friends" so that it will automatically include all of my contacts in my Friends group. Currently, Mail only adds the first email listed for Bob. How do I get it to add both of Bob's emails?)

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